Friday, January 29, 2016
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2015 (Dec. 1, 2014 – Nov.…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:46PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
If you’ve been wondering what the value is for actively embracing and participating (posting, sharing, tweeting, retweeting, commenting) in social media and social media for the arts, …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:10PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Hollywood Reporter: Hamilton, the red-hot Broadway musical with book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is coming to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The production is scheduled to…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:58PMFriday, January 22, 2016
LA Times: Deaf West Theatre’s revival of the musical “Spring Awakening” is closing Sunday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after more than 130 performances on Broadway. Prod…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:15PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Official Press Release: Organizers of the Hollywood Fringe Festival (www.hollywoodfringe.org) have announced the details of this year’s Town Hall & Workshop Series, a collection …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:16PMAmerican Theatre – The Chicago advocacy organization Not in Our House (NIOH) joins theatres across the country in combatting sexual harassment. “The theatrical unions’ and guilds�…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:16PMSaturday, January 16, 2016
The Stage: With people beginning to plan for the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival, this article from London is an interesting conversation starter. West End director, Phil Willmott, worries …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:22PMThursday, January 14, 2016
Alan Rickman was that rarest of actors, a true star of both stage and screen. It seems fitting to honor his passing with his reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130.
The post Goodbye, Al…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:03PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Huffington Post: Film actor and local theater presence Gregg Daniel gets some national mainstream exposure as he expands his creative endeavors to include directing. “Learn everythin…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:04PMKCRW: It’s been widely known for a few weeks now that the much-feted Rogue Machine Theatre company was moving from the only home it has had since its founding in 2008. Critic Antho…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:04PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
ThisStage: Steven Leigh Morris, the new Executive Director for the LA Stage Alliance, lays out the initial agenda under his leadership. It’s a 4-point plan concerning: Property Val…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:39PMFriday, January 8, 2016
American Theatre: Los Angeles actor and Sacred Fools Theater Company member, Leon Russom, gets a national platform to talk about his plans for 2016: Los Angeles actor Leon Russom who spent…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:56PMThe Echo Theatre Company‘s 2016 season will include five premieres, up from four in 2015: Feb. 6 – March 13: World premiere of Bed (playwright Sheila Callaghan, director Jennifer…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:44AMREDCAT, CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, has announced its schedule of Winter/Spring 2016 events which include: Theater: the World Premiere of The Wooster Group’s produ…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:44AMSaturday, January 2, 2016
LA Times: Vanessa Stewart has talked passionately about the need for 99 seat theater and the continued success of her show Louis & Keely ‘Live’ at the Sahara, like that of Sp…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:45PMTonya Pinkins walking out of the Off-Broadway production, Mother Courage and Her Children, has made clear the difficulties that can occur when artists of varying perspectives collaborate, pa…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:45PMFriday, January 1, 2016
Radio station KCRW’s theater critic, Anthony Byrnes reflects on five productions that most moved him in 2015. Man Covets Bird at 24th Street Theater Children’s theater? Yes. Well, …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:46AMBroadway World: 2015 saw a rise in the discussion about diversity, the way that different members of society are portrayed in mainstream art and have access to mainstream art creation. W…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:46AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
2015 was a big year for Los Angeles Theatre and here at FootLights, we couldn’t be more proud. Every step of the way brought enormous upheaval and sometimes difficult change for the co…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:42AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
Huffington Post writer Brad Schreiber gives his 10 best theater productions in Los Angeles for the year 2015. Both the Geffen Playhouse and the Fountain Theatre score twice on his list.
Th…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:21PMThursday, December 24, 2015
Bitter Lemons: As a site that aggregates reviews of Los Angeles theater, Bitter Lemons offers a unique perspective in what was the most compelling – or at least the most enthusiastically…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:38PMPlaybill: The Off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs made theatre history December 10 by being the first-ever Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free. The broadca…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:38PMThe New Yorker provides a glimpse of the world of the Broadway Understudy: Understudies suffer the artistic frustration of not being able to make a role entirely their own, even should they …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:16AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Redmoon Theater, the innovative and ambitious company that has brought free art to the Windy City for 24 years will shutter in early 2016. The site-specific company, known for its large-sc…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:52PM“I’ve been producing the Holiday Celebration for ten years, so I’m most excited about the sounds and groups that have never been on the show before,” said producer Adam Davis. “T…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:51PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Playbill believes it knows how an American National Theater should look… and why America needs one: …unlike most nations (the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, China, and India among…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:14PMMiami is not particularly known for being a theater center for the US which is all the more reason why Christine Dolen’s thoughts on the scene there, after 36 years of watching it as a…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:14PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Deadline Hollywood: A sobering look at the “new normal” where roles once billed as “Guest Stars” are now day players. If actors don’t have television to pay…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:24AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Time Out: Long time critic Bob Verini gives his assessment of LA theater in 2015. …a lot of first-class work managed to find its way to LA’s stages… the kind of ambitious, so…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:39PMThisStage.LA: In a year that has been full of surprising twists and turns for the Los Angeles Theater Community, Sacred Fools has announced it will be moving into the space recently vacate…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:40PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
The New York Times: Actress Leslie Uggams is doing in New York what often happens in Los Angeles: opting for a well-paying gig, a recurring roll on television, over a theater roll.
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